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Mannyng, Robert, also known as Robert of Brunne d.c.1338
English chronicler and poet
Born in Bourne, Lincolnshire, he entered the nearby Gilbertine monastery of Sempringham in 1288. His chief work is Handlynge Synne (c.1303), a free and amplified translation into English rhyming couplets of the Manuel des Pechiez of William of Wadington. It is a landmark in the transition from early to later Middle English, and a colourful picture of contemporary life. He also composed a rhyming translation of Robert Wace's Brut d'Angleterre, with a translation from French of a rhyming chronicle, The Story of Ingeland, by the Augustinian canon, Peter Langtoft.
Bibliography: R Crosby, Robert Mannyng of Brunne: a new biography (1942)
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